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[LUG] Scam calls - again
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- Subject: [LUG] Scam calls - again
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- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:33:13 +0000
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I don't get many scam phone calls. I have Caller Display set up on my
phone so if I see International or Outside Area on the screen I know not
to bother to answer. (I never get any international calls from any
family or friends.)
However, in the last two days I have had two calls which were obviously
scams, but the display showed a normal looking number. Yesterday 01340
075 131 and today 01340 074 861. Because they looked like normal UK
numbers I was not alerted. I finished up listening to some kind person
from "Technical Support" telling me that I had a problem with my Windows
computer which they could sort out for me. Yeah, right.
My first thoughts are that there are two possible explanations. The
callers are using some clever set up to make the numbers look like
normal UK numbers, or these scammers are actually in the UK. Has anyone
on the list come across this at all?
Just wondering,
Neil
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